Feder, Meir

Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Meir Feder has argued appeals in the United States Supreme Court and in eight federal circuits; he also briefs and argues state court appeals and dispositive motions in significant trial-level cases. He has significant experience in multiple practice areas, including securities, antitrust, class action, consumer, criminal, and employment litigation.

Meir currently represents American Needle in the United States Supreme Court in American Needle, Inc. v. National Football League, No. 08-661. His recent matters include obtaining the dismissal with prejudice of a putative securities class action against Dell seeking more than $20 billion in damages; successfully appealing a federal district court ruling casting doubt on Macy's companywide binding arbitration program; and obtaining summary judgment, and affirmance on appeal, in a putative Fair Credit Reporting Act class action against Experian seeking up to $3 billion in statutory damages.

Meir heads the Issues & Appeals Practice in Jones Day's New York Office. Prior to joining the Firm, he was deputy chief appellate attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. Before assuming that supervisory position, he prosecuted cases for the U.S. Attorney's Office ranging from bank and health care fraud to international narcotics trafficking, and tried seven cases in federal district court.

Meir has also served as an adjunct professor at New York University School of Law, where he has taught Supreme Court practice and advocacy and co-directed the school's Supreme Court Litigation Clinic.

Areas of Practice

• Issues & Appeals
• Appellate Advocacy in the U.S. Supreme Court
• Appellate Litigation in Other Federal & State Courts
• Trial Litigation in Federal & State Courts

Representative Cases

• Alfa Capital Markets successfully defends against RICO claim related to plaintiff’s failed investment in Russian telecommunications company
• Cole National challenges California restrictions on business and financial relationships between opticians and optometrist or ophthalmologist , (2009)
• ConsumerInfo.com defeats class certification in a proposed Illinois class action involving Internet website marketing
• ConsumerInfo.com obtains summary judgment in Illinois consumer class action
• ConsumerInfo.com successfully petitions for interlocutory appeal
• Dell obtains dismissal of securities litigation , (2009)
• EDS resolves consolidated securities fraud action and ERISA class action
• Experian defeats putative class action in Second Circuit based on preemption of state law under the FCRA
• Experian defeats suit in Ninth Circuit challenging, under Federal Credit Reporting Act, Experian's reporting of debt discharged in bankruptcy
• Experian prevails in 11th Circuit appeal in one of first applications of Safeco to a Fair Credit Reporting Act case , (2009)
• Federated Department Stores division appeals NLRB decision
• Federated Dept. Stores defends NLRB decision on appeal
• Habeas corpus case involving claim of actual innocence scores victory before the 6th Circuit , (2009)
• IBM successfully appeals environmental contamination ruling
• Individual appeals convictions for securities fraud to Second Circuit
• Macy's obtains favorable Second Circuit ruling in Title VII case challenging company policy for arbitrating employment disputes
• NACCO makes $325 unsolicited tender offer for Applica , (2009)
• Prisoner represented in the 9th Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court in case involving the Prison Litigation Reform Act's exhaustion requirement
• SOURCECORP securities litigation dismissal upheld by 5th Circuit
• Tobacco retailers association files amicus brief in appeal from cigar trademark ruling

West Practice Categories

Bankruptcy Litigation, Class Actions, Complex Litigation, Federal Appellate Practice, Federal Claims Court, Federal Trial Practice, International Trade Litigation, Litigation & Appeals, Military & Veterans Appeals, Multidistrict Litigation, Patent Litigation, State Appellate Practice, State Trial Practice, Tax Litigation, US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, US Supreme Court

Bar Admissions

• District of Columbia
• New York

Education

• Columbia University - New York
• Harvard University

Published Works

• Key to Appellate Brief Writing: Keeping Your Reader in Mind, Appellate Practice, Volume 28, Number 2, 2009
• Stoneridge v. Scientific-Atlanta: Securities Fraud Defendants Look To Continue Their Streak, The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, Issues & Overview, 2008
• Stoneridge v. Scientific-Atlantic: The Death Knell for 'Scheme' Liability?, Securities Litigation & Regulation, Vol. 13, Iss. 13, 2007
• U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Securities Fraud Suits Must Be Dismissed Unless Plaintiffs Plead Fact Establishing a "Cogent and Compelling Inference" of Fraudulent Intent, 2007
• Cause and Effect: Section 10b-5 Not a Loss Insurance Policy, Practice Perspectives: Securities and Shareholder Litigation & SEC Enforcement, 2007
• An Appellate Practice In New York: Wave Of The Future? The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, 2006

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